could end up on the internet. you know how it goes these day. judge lynch sounded the alarm and folks are discussing whether they might need to change the design. i'd say that's a pretty good idea or just build another elevator. "cnn newsroom" continues with brooke baldwin. >> glass stairs, really? really, randi? good afternoon. raging inferno in arizona, calling it the massive wallow fire threatening to jump across the board for in new mexico. getting a better look as to how far, how quickly the fire spread from this progression map. take a look at this with me. the whole thing started may 29th. it is now bigger than the size of new york city and chicago combined. more than 600 square miles in ten days. chad mayers, i want to bring you in. i feel like the first time we were talking about this, it was 200,000 aches are scorched now 400,000. a bit of a silver lining the

first nonred flag day because of the winds. >> correct. >> but still, that can burn some grass and move on through. >> certainly, still out of control. just because the winds die off, it has nothing do with the thing being contained. another gust today, 15, 20, 30 miles per hour, it's going to again. there won't be gusts of 40 and 45 and 50, like we had yesterday, that's the good news. that's why the red flag warning moved east into albuquerque. but now we have people in albuquerque and east ward that have to breathe the smoke and it's dangerous to breathe it. people can die from smoke inhalation, not from this diverse and diluted type but if you get close and breathe it for a long time, if you have asthma, you're going to have immediate problems. keep the house closed. turn off swamp cooler. now what that is? a membrane that gets wet and the fan blows through, fan evaporates water and the house cools off. don't use that today.

use a regular air conditioner because it's a better filter . >> i want to get straight to jim spellman who is literally driving toward the fire. it's touch and go with our communication with him. we want to get him on the line as quickly as we can. you're near springerville, arizona. you're driving toward this fire. talk to me about conditions. it's the first nonred flag. i imagine a lot of firefighters trying to take use of it while they can. >> reporter: they sure are. one thing allows hem to do is build this line out more stably where they burn away -- they try to bill 300, 400-foot trench so when the fire gets to it it noose where to go. hard to do that with the high winds, it creates spot, blows em berz two, three miles behind the firefighters. they have to pull out and start over again. hope to take advantage as much that's can today to take care of building those things around the

populated areas here. >> what kind of tools, jim, are firefighters able to use? >> reporter: everything from bulldozers, to a lot of hand work. not a lot of roads here, they have to hike in, use hand tools to dig out trenches. today because of the lower wind, it's enabling them to use a giant dc-7 to drop retardant on. trying to add to the arsenal but for the last ten days the wind's too high to make it effective operation. they have that, hope to get that up to do a retardant drop over part of the fire and that will help bill up the buffer zone between the populated area and the fire. >> i heard something about the fire getting close to some power lines and that could affect people, you know, power going back and forth across the state. what do you know you're closer than we are. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. there are burns underneath the power lines to create a

controlled buffer around them. one of the main power lines that head into new mexico. and also fiber-optic line. if the fiber-optic lines go, they'll be down to radio-to-radio communications even in the fire zone. that's something they're worried. they don't think it's an issue today but it's one of the high priorities when they look at the worst case scenario in the next few days. >> we've been reporting, in terms of the damage, 11 buildings, perhaps homes, destroyed and 600 others threatened by the fire. town in terms of evacuations, springerville and eeger, have you had a chance to talk to folks? a guy yesterday said, sorry, i'm not leaving my house. that is not necessarily the norm? are most folks for the most part getting out of town? >> reporter: certainly only a handful of people that are doing that. every time there's an event like this people want to ride it out. we spoke with a guy yesterday, set up his home sprinkler system around his house and he's got a

water pump on the back of a 4 x 4 to battle hot spots that should land there. and he's determined to ride it out. it's the last thing these first responders need to worry about people inside the evacuation zone. as long as they sign a waiver saying they acknowledge the risk, they can stay. >> jim spellman, i want to ask about you. you said you were driving very close to the fire. how close are they allowing you to get? and also, where are you? what do you see ? what do you smell right now? >> reporter: we're about to leave 260 and head into town. late yesterday afternoon the fire flare up near gear, possibly destroyed handful of structures. this is the area they're worried about the northwest corner of the fire. we got behind them yesterday we had to pull back. this is where they're least defended. this is where a lot of emphasis is right now. we are trying to head down into greer right now.

they have locked down this whole area, roads are closed, and we're escorted by the firefighting crews here. it's slow going. we are trying to stay out of the way. you'll see spots, a side of a ridge that's smoking heavily now that we didn't see smoking yesterday. so it's made progress. despite that lack of red flag warning today they told us definitively, this fire will grow today because winds are not as high as they have been it will grow without doubt. they're trying to make sure that it's not growing, you know, at all possible, into structures and where people are. >> jim, i want to let you get off the phone. be safe. get some pictures. do me a favor, sent it back to us. maybe we'll get you back on the phone line. jim spellman, thank you. >> when the fire gets this big, 600,000 acres, what it will be tomorrow, the next day, talk about the mileage of the fire line. when you have a small fire, it's

640 acres you have a mile on each side -- >> circumference. >> now your circumference is the big as the state of rhode island. imagine trying to fight a fire, stopping it from going to connecticut or massachusetts the size of rhode island? that's what the firefighters literally have to do. >> the size of chicago and new york. massive. chad myers. >> fleeing for their lives. thousands of syrians trying to get out of the country. the woman everyone is talking about today. anthony weiner's wife. here she is. we have some video of her traveling in the middle east, wit her boss, secretary of state hillary clinton. more on her coming up.

in syria refugees are rushing to the border if n. fear of a government crackdown. more than 1,000 syrians crossed the border overnight. ivan watson reported from the hilly border area between these two countries. >> reporter: brooke, looking at one of the events moving up and down the border road here from turkish territory to the syrian border, very close by. many of them have been carrying back refugees, syrian refugees from just over here, less than a mile from where i'm standing. many refugees have fled the syrian border town, about ten miles as the crow flies over these hills. why have they been running? they're afraid that the syrian army's going to come and attack them that n. that town. describing the town as a ghost town, the syrian government claims that up to 120 syrian

forces were massacred, that's an account that the refugees themselves are disclaiming. they say no way, what happened is the soldiers started firing amongst themselves when the soldiers were asked to open fire on peaceful civilian demonstrators. the point is, is that in just a few days, more than 2,000 refugees have crosses the border here into turkey. they are being housed now at a refugee camp run by the turkish red crescent in an abandoned tobacco factory. scores of wounded people, mostly young men with bullet wounds, burns, treated at local hospitals. the turkish government, which was a close economic and political ally of syria, they have announced that their borders will remain open. so we can probably expect more of these refugees in the days ahead. brooke, we actually talked to one activist in a town further

into syrian territory and he described wednesday night that protesters were out burning tires, trying to block a column of at least nine syrian tanks from moving through their town to this rebellious northern border town. back to you, brooke. >> ivan watson, thank you, between turkey and syria. back in washington, desperate times call for desperate measures. vice president biden is involved, zwrufinvolved jumped into this debate over the money problems. next, what he's doing today and how all of this affects you. and now, a quick quiz. the current debt ceiling is just a tad over $14 trillion, it's $14.3. do you know how much it was when first set in 1917? a couple of guesses. make it easier. one, 11 trillion, two, 11.5, c, 7 735 billion?

first, free money advice. >> time for the help desk, we get answers to your financial questions. joining me, a personal finance author, and doug flynn, a certified financial planner. first question, guy from randi and n. cameron clark, california. our house is 41% under water and we struggle to pay $2800 a month mortgage when i retire in nine years. what are the downsides of walking away now? >> there are a lot of downsides. first, we've got the whole moral issue, how you're going to feel about doing that. another one is just the impact that it's going to have on your credit score if you need to borrow money going forward. randi said she's planning on retiring in nine years and i'm wondering why think of retiring if you've got this situation? i'd rather him talk to somebody, maybe at the national foundation for credit counsel organize the homeowner crisis resource center and figure out what they can do with their budget, can they

refinance, do a short sale, other things they can do to get in a position where walking away doesn't feel like the only option. >> greated aadvice. terry asks, if i retire at 62ing collect social security i'm allowed to make 14,400, that's this year, right? can i continue to work and contribute all of my 14,400 to the earnings to my 401(k)? doug? >> i think it's this year 14,160, kron that they take back one of every two dollars from social security. you have that. second part of the question is this, you can if it's -- if your plan allows it. and what that means is, you can absolutely put 100% of your income away up to limits for people over 50, $22,000, and wipe out taxable income but your plan has to allow it. there are federal rules and each plan is approved by the department of labor. your plan might be an old plan where allows 15%, 25% of

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i just in to us here at cnn. breaking political news about former house speaker newt gingrich hse would like to be president 2012. came under fire and then taking a two-week vacation to the mediterranean with his wife. mark? >> right. house speaker newt gingrich deciding that he does want to become president. his road will be more difficult, cnn has learned as other news agencies are reporting his campaign manager rob johnson has resigned in addition to that, several other senior staff members have left the gingrich campaign. this comes at a critical time next week on monday night cnn is

holding the first real republican presidential debate where all of the candidates will be on stage. newt gingrich, however, doesn't appear to have his senior staff in place heading into monday night. of course we'll be following this to figure out what will be newt gingrich's next steps. as you said, he's come under criticism, he came off the campaign trail two weeks, back in new hampshire yesterday for an appearance-however, he is down today. following the story in washington. >> mark preston, let us know in you learn anything else about newt gingrich and his staff. we ask you'd if you knew how much the u.s. debt ceiling was first set in 1917. you thought about it, you mulled this over. answer? number two, answer, $11. 5 billion. the debt ceiling in this year 2011 led to a fight on capitol hill. vice president joe biden jumping in to play referee. he is again getting democrats and republicans back together to try to break this gridlock over

raising our country's debt limit. right now the country's kcredit is maxed out and we have until august 2nd, the deadline from tim geithner to raise this. but you have to throw in sluggish jobs report from last month and what has been a plunging stock market and that is adding to even more urgency. go to jean sahadi for cnnmoney.com. it seemed like the crux, republicans are saying cut spending in trillions exchange, they'll vote to raise the debt ceiling. what about the concern about cutting spending? what are you hearing from some of these deficit hawks you speak of? how might that hurt the economy? >> i talked to some career deficit hawks, people like david walk, the country's auditor, and he said the short-term deficit isn't the country's problem because it's result of short-term problems like high

unemployment, short growth. his attitude we can do some cuts but not do too many because it will hurt the economy. ben bernanke said the same thing tuesday in the speech to international bankers. the concern is if you take too much money out of the economy that is going to hurt unemployment. it's going to make it much harder for people to find work and it's going to cut down people's spending. so, the concern is that you want to put in place a long term plan because that will help bolster confidence among investors and businesses because that's the whole point and yet you don't want to undermine the recovery. so that's -- that's their concern. >> tricky, sort of balancing both. you have the ranking democrat on the house committee, he says using the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip is like, quote, playing russian roulette with a fully loaded revolver. what happens if we -- if they don't vote to raise it and we default? what then? >> well, here's the thing. let's say august 3rd comes and we haven't raised the ceiling.

nobody can say what will happen because the bond market and the stock market is inherently unpredictable. from bond investors they think it would be ridiculous for lawmaker not raise it because it opens door to investors starting to worry they won't get paid. they may get paid in the near term. but it opens a door of doubt for them. >> so, i've had this conversation waite couple of members of congress, you know, about how americans, you know, we're taught not to default, right on our mortgage, et cetera. so what kind of message would this send to the country, if the federal government does? >> well, again, another bond investor i talked to said, he thinks if we pay principal and interest on our debt maybe we'll be in default but we'll look like a banana republic. we'll pay some people but stiff others temporarily, we'll have to pay them once lawmakers

eventually raise the ceiling which they'll eventually have to do. even if we never pass another spending increase, tax cut, we have to raise the debt ceiling. it's a license to pay our bills that we already incurred. >> deadline august 2. we have a stellar aaa rating from moody's. >> all three rating agencies. all are saying, guys, don't mess this up. >> do this quickly. thank you so much. read her piece, go to cnnmoney.com. alabama's tough new immigration law. governor of the state just fined it. it could land you in jail for driving an illegal immigrant any where. and did you see this? the mom accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter breaking down. we're going to tell you why casey anthony cried in court.

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illegal immigrants. the law set to goat in into eff 1st of september. take a look at this, casey anthony wiping tears, looking at graphic pictures of her dead daughter shown to jurors in her murder trial under way today in orlando. the judge warned spectators to control their emotions or get out, as witnesses described the discovery of little 2-year-old caylee anthony's duct taped skull in a wooded area. earlier, casey anthony's brother, lee, was back on the stand. he testified that his sister told him a nanny snitched little caylee from her because the nanny didn't believe casey anthony was a good mother. here she is, pictures of casey anthony moments ago, apparently falling ill being escorted out of the courtroom. court just recessed for the day. it is the first hurricane of the season in the eastern pacific.

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a growing number of democrats are publicly wishing congressman anthony weiner would just up and go away. senator patrick leahy of vermont is the latest high profile dem to suggest weiner should resign in the wake of his sexting scandal adding to drama, weiner's wife of almost one year is pregnant. we wanted to know a little bit more about this woman who, by far, is standing by her man. so we sent mary snow to find it. >> reporter: as congressman anthony weiner fights for his political life in new york, his wife, huma abedin, continues working thousands of miles away,

seen here in abu dhabi with her boss, secretary of state, hillary clinton. the 35-year-old abedin, one of clinton's top aides, noticeably absent from her husband's side when he admitted having sexually explicit communications with several women and lying about it. but washingt"the washington pos reporter quotes friends of abedin as saying, don't read too much into her absence. >> her friends say that this is obviously a bump in the road for her marriage, she's very much committed to her husband, she loves her husband, and she wants to work it out. >> reporter: abedin is a muslim who grew up in saudi arabia. weiner is jewish, and raised in brooklyn. he has a reputation for being brash and relishes the spotlight. abedin shies from it, and is described as very private. a rare exception was in 2007 when vogue magazine profiled her. she's most often the person in the background, zoonly at the side of hillary clinton and the person who has her ear.

abedin started as a white house intern in 199 6 and worked in several capacities since then. on the campaign trail in 20008 presidential election and serves as deputy chief of staff to clinton. she's more than a trusted aide, clintons describes her as a second daughter to the clintons and sister to chelsea. the former president officiated at ceremony last july. abedin hasn't sought the spotlight she hags mas made a nn washington. >> alluring and glamorous in a ta town like washington she brings hollywood glamorous good looks in a rolodex filled with celebrities and political titans across the road. >> reporter: a friend of abedin who asked not to be identified to respect her privacy, said her friends will do everything they can to protect her. earlier this week, democratic

strategist james carville said she's very popular in democratic circles and democrats were livid at weiner for putting his wife through this. mary snow, cnn, new york. >> thank you. now to the next story which, by the way, thanks for tweets, many who guessed what this thing is. geomagnetic current. and we'll explain what wild picture of the sun could be doing perhaps to your internet connection today. and the man on this billboard claims he would have been a father by now had his ex-girlfriend made a different choice about her pregnancy. he's standing up for quote/unquote father's right. why he decided to public lehoux millia humiliate a woman he once loved. i saw what my life could be... and found the strength to make it happen. ♪ i lost my leg serving my country. now i serve in a new uniform.

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one of the biggest eruptions seen on the sun is what's trending today. take a look at this amazing piece of video, thank you to nasa for providing this. this is a giant solar flare. this flare sent plasma particles hurdling through space and created beautiful pictures, all of this is being carried along solar winds, topping some 3 million miles an hour. here's one worry, chad myers will talk about this, could the geomagnetic current cause major problems with the earth's satellite, maybe our power grids, maybe affect transformers?

i was reading possibly flights affected. in your best chad myersesque way, explain what this is and how i mean it's beautiful pictures, should we be worried. >> someone poked the sun and the sun went and let out this coronal mass ejection. it's particles flying toward the united states, the world. >> quickly. >> but not flying toward us directly, good news. did you see how to came out the side and the bottom? think about the globe and then think about the sun being three dimensional. if it -- if this coronal mass ejection was in the middle of the picture and went -- that's what we saw -- then this wind, we would know there's a lot coming our way. this will be a glancing blow to the earth. yes there will be some probably geomagnetic storms. it's aurora borealis. so this happens a lot. but we are now about to come into a solar maximum of what all

of these sun spot cycles -- if you heard about that -- and how this may start to come up. a graphic that we've made here. the last real maximum was back in '99, 2000, 2001. we've been in a minimum for a very long time. in the minimum you get one of these cmes every week. half we don't see because they may go out the other side of the sun. you can't see those. near the solar maximum you can get two to three every day. and so that could be the significant part of now we're going it start to see more and more and more up until about the year 2013. there it is. there's the explosion. see that kind of almost -- this is going to stop and run again -- i want you notice it explodes and then some of the stuff is sucked back into the sun and see where it splashes down? >> yeah. >> splashes are the size of the earth. that's just -- that poof. >> to put in perspective. >> i know this looks like a disk the size of your tv set but it's

the sun and the splashdowns are the size of the earth. >> given the size of the splashdowns and on these concerns potentially with the issues with power outages or issues with my internet today, could this be part of the problem? >> it certainly could cause a problem. there are many more problems in the coming future. last time we had this big maximum we didn't have as many satellites. we didn't re lie on the internet quite as much. all of a sudden -- >> we're of a digital age, friend. >> how long could you live without your blackberry? sometimes when the cmes come in 15 light owners see them coming they may have to shut satellite off to protect them for a while. >> how much of a heads up do you get? >> between 48 and 72 hours from when that thing pops to when it would get here. >> the smart folks at nasa can predict this? >> yes. this isn't going to happen and

six minutes later it's going to get here. this takes days and days. this wind, this flare, energy, does not come at the speed of light. >> it's amazing perspective of the sun that we rarely get and here we are. chad. >> we have better telescopes. >> thank you very much, chad myers. appreciate it. all of this week here cnn has been going in depth on our listening tour. we want to hear from you about what issues will be front and center when you're heading into next year's election. we went to philadelphia and the issues are not that different for most cities struggling with budget cuts, lay-off and crime. sarah hoy spoke with some folks in philadelphia about what they say must change. >> what was l. satisfy me will be folks who are who they say they are.

>> but with government it's like you keep moving up and you say and stay with old ideas that don't make sense and don't work. >> i wans a change. i want something different. >> it's the politicians' job work for us but also the citizens' job to work for ourselves and with government. >> i'm leroy simmons. i'm associate minister, born and raised in philadelphia. i think that philly is in a flux. we have a lot of folks who are poor folks, who really need help. who really could use the political strength that we worked hard 20, 30 years ago to bill. >> my name's emily dole why, i'm 27, i live in philadelphia. we have a big issue with joblessness. and that does have an impact on

neighborhoods and quality of life and individual families, but the larger infrastructure of a city as well. you can't just ask. you have to participate. you have to be an active citizen and that's how we're able to get things done. >> my name is anya, i'm 34. i live in philadelphia in the germantown section of the city. we need to increase our efficiency. we've got government here running in philadelphia like it was 1902 sometimes. we can't operate like that. that is not only a time stop but draining resources, taking away from our money. maybe that's why we're broke. >> hi, i'm ebony, i'm 21, and a member of the ye pushout. instead of cutting education and putting month nye into police force and military they need to take money from there and tut put it into school. knowledge is power. we need knowledge.

without it, what are we going to do? ♪ >> sarah hoy, great piece. thank you so much. if you want to hear republican conditions for president debate the economy and many other issues, join us next monday evening for the new hampshire presidential debate. 8:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. you know the saying, a picture is worth a thousand words and in this case, 21 words helps this man get the point. take a look. meet the guilted ex-boyfriend behind the billboard's shocking claim. [ male announcer ] you sprayed them.

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okay. now to an unusual breakup story from a small town in new mexico. population, 35,000. you get to know your neighbors in a place that size. so when this bill bore went up, some folks recognized man seen in the billboard, arms cradling around this blank space, just right size for an infant. now that man's name is greg fultz. the message he paid for is this,

and i'm quoting, this would have been a picture of my 2-month-old baby if the mother had decided to not kill our child! so, fultz alleges his ex-girlfriend had an abortion. now her friends have said publicly, however, she had a miscarria miscarriage, her attorney has said either way that bill bore il board is a violation of the privacy. we asked for fultz' ex-girlfriend or attorney to join us but have not responded to our question. i want to go to greg fultz and his attorney, both live. greg, okay, i have to, first, begin with this. you know, pregnancy can be an immensely emotional experience for any couple, especially, if let's say unplanned. so why, why handle your reaction in a public way? >> well, it was -- it was handled in a way that tried to

give me a sense of healing over it because it's been a pretty traumatic time for me as well. and i wanted to do something to help her close this tragic event in my life. >> i'm going out on a limb. i haven't spoken with her, but i'm going to guess it was traumatic for your ex-girlfriend too. when you say this whole experience, i've read, woke you up to the issue of father's rights and that's what inspired you to pay $1200 for the billboard, has this been the first time you've gone through this, losing a pregnancy with a girlfriend? what was your stance on abortion prior to this? >> yes. this is the first time i ever conceived a child. i'm 35 now and i've always believed that i was never able to conceive. and i've always had a pro-life

stance. i strongly believe that abortion should not be used as birth control and that's just my stance and it always has been. >> greg, here's the thing. you're an adult and you felt jilted by felt jilted by your ex-girlfriend. why not be an adult? why not approach her, talk about it in person? why pay $1200 and humiliate this woman? >> well, first thing, this is the about her. okay? >> in part, it is. i just have to jump in. in part it is, because she was with you and this is about her. >> well, this -- the relationship that i had ended almost a year ago, okay? i'm past her. this is about me healing from a

tragic investment that i was affected by. and it moved me so profoundly that, you know, i had to do something, to give myself closure. and -- >> so why -- >> this was never about her. >> so, why not then, if you wanted to heal, if you wanted to heal why not spend the $1200 that you used on the billboard and educate young men about father's rights, if you feel that strongly about the issue? >> well, what it was is i needed -- when i was going through this pregnancy, i came to find out quickly that fathers have no rights when it comes to an unborn child and i was completely powerless to do anything. i found that quite shocking and

unbelievable and adeveloped this billboard at the time when my child would have been born. if the child would have survived. but i thought that this would make a very good message and it's profound and it's -- it's just enough to, you know -- powerful enough message to really start a discussion on father's rights and -- >> greg fultz, do you feel like this public humiliation for your ex-girlfriend and this healing for you, has it been successful? do you feel through this? do you feel healed? >> well, i must disagree with you on that. like i said, this is nothing to do with her. the billboard is a general statement that can apply to anybody. and >> she took this to court so she would argue, sir this very much has to do with her. she's suing you for violating

her privacy and also for harassment. she, in addition, has accused you of domestic violence s there any reason for her to be afraid of you physically, greg? >> no. like i said, the relationship's been over for a year. >> i understand, but she still took you to court. >> there's no -- there's violence there's been no threats. we even work in the same building together and the only time a threat came up was when she took me to court. >> mr. holmes -- forgive me, i just want to have your attorney jump in just briefly. essentially, she is arguing that is invasion of privacy. you-all are arguing that is freedom of speech, is that correct? >> well, first of all, good afternoon, brooke, thanks for having us on and hello from new mexico. what an interesting issue in this wildfire of debate over this vibrant discussion nationally, internationally even

on these issues is really what freedom of speech is all about. offensive speech touches on personal lives. offensive speech touches on issues regarding someone's life. but there is no abuse of privacy here in his exercise of his statement he wants to get out and that is, hey, you know what dads should have rights in these decisions. not just -- >> i understand this is your quilt essential battle over father's rights. my final question to you and then we are going to go the court has ordered take this billboard down by the end of next week or you could be thrown into jail, so, greg, what are you going to do? >> well, the only way this billboard's coming down is if it's forced down, because i won't have -- >> well, the judge says it has to come down,ing so you taking it down yourself? >> it will come down when it's forced down by someone other than me.

i will -- i will go to jail while it's in its contracted time. >> so, you're willing to go to jail -- let me just ask you this you're willing to go to jail rather than take this billboard down? >> if that is the last resort option, yes, i'm passionate enough to stand up for what i believe in and people can associate themselves with anything. doesn't make it true. >> greg fultz, todd holmes, gentlemen, thank you. interesting discussion. and i have a lot of tweets, i already can tell. again, greg's ex-girlfriend and her attorney did not respond to an interview for today. we most definitely reached out multiple times. we are learning more details about those resignations from newt gingrich's presidential campaign. wolf blitzer has the late answered going to join me live with that. everything about you, bank statement, mortgage payments, records it is all stored somewhere electronically and if hackers can crack into citibank, imagine what they can do to you.

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jive to ask, newt gingrich, learning his campaign manager is out, staffers are out, a crucial

blow? >> looks like a huge development and some are already suggesting, brooke, as you know, his huge presidential campaign which just started only a few weeks ago could beism ploeding, even as we speak right now he insists he is going forward, going to be out in los angeles speaking before a republican jewish coalition group. says he will be at the cnn new hampshire debate monday night. when most of your senior staff, not amount national senior staff but those staff working in key states like iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, they quit, en masse that is obviously very, very significant step and it comes on the heels of some major blunders he has obviously made i think a lot of those staff members were not happy with the criticism he had on "meet the press" as far as paul ryan's medicare reform plan. they were certainly not happy that word surfaced that they had as 500,000 credit limit at tiffany's in new york. what may have pushed some of them over the top. two weeks ago, he and his wife,

calista, decided to go on vacation, previously scheduled vacation in a cruise line to the mediterranean, the greek isles and turkey, the sea borne odessa, luxurious cruise ship. you know, you start a presidential campaign you don't go on vacation and you especially don't go on vacation to the mediterranean as opposed to some place in the united states, florida, california, grand canyon. you go on a luxurious european cruise right after you announce you are running for president of the united states, i think that irritated a lot of his staffers and they had to other differences, i'm sure as well. but it does not bode well for newt gingrich and his entire presidential ambition now, although he says he is going forward and will tonight campaign. >> as you mentioned, he was one of the folks invited to cnn presidential debate monday, like you said, he still plans on being there wolf blitzer, i appreciate it. thank you so much. we are going to have more of the developing story in just a few moments. but now, top of the hour, watch this.

one southern state is introducing a new immigration law and critics say this one is much more harsh than arizona's. find out why children are the targets. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. fears grow as cyberattacks increase. if the u.s. government and banks are vulnerable, how safe is your life online? i have the warnings you need to hear. plus, the judge in the casey anthony murder trial is warning jurors leave if you cannot control your emotions. >> for those of you who may have queasiness about viewing these type of photographs -- >> find out what photos the jury is seeing and how casey anthony reacts. also, politics, getting personal. >> it's not what you know that get us in trouble in this building, it's what you don't know that just ain't so. >> a fight breaks out after an illinois democrat blasts a republican, but wait until you

hear why. and the best part of coming home. welcome back, everyone, i'm brooke balanced win. and i want to begin this hour with what is now being called the toughest crackdown on illegal immigration in the country. today, alabama's governor signed this thing into law. the new law goes even further than the cop throw version immigration law arizona passed last year. here's a quick rundown of some of the items here. it will be a crime in alabama to knowingly give a ride to anyone who is in the country illegallism also, public schools must collect documents to determine every student's legal status. those are just some of the items there. joining me now live, alabama state representative john merrill, who supports alabama's new law. here he is. also, mary bauer on the phone line, the director of the immigrant justice department with the southern poverty law center who to opposes the law. we will speak with her momentarily. but representative merrill, i would like to begin with you why

is this good for alabama? >> brooke this is good for alabama because it will reduce illegal immigration in our state and that's the purpose of the legislation. >> i know both chambers in alabama are both republican majori majority, passed this thing and then of course, governor bentley sign it. did you, at all have any hesitation in this? >> well, governor bentley signed that legislation today because it is good legislation. it's good legislation for alabama. it's good legislation for the people of alabama. and ultimately, it will be good legislation for other southern states as well. i didn't have any hesitation about the support of this legislation because what it does is it actually just encourages everybody to have to follow the same path to fulfill whatever commitment or opportunity for growth and personal development that they would like to experience. >> representative merrill, i do want to point out one unique piece of this law that involves children. so, we know that parents of

foreign-born public school kids will be required to report their immigration status to huntsville officials. i picked up the huntsville times earlier in the week, rain the walt to read this line this is an editorial, "under this bill, we are going to keep illegal immigrant students to out of all public colleges so none of them, regardless of how smart or how hard they work would be able to get the education they need to become teachers, engineers, doctors, nurses and entrepreneurs." how do you respond to that? >> well, brooke, obviously anyone that enrolls in public schools in the state of alabama or public institutions of higher learning are required to provide certain documents in order to gain access and that's not asking illegals to do anything other than what our citizens are already required to do we don't want to try to make any special accommodation for any kind of interest group, any kind of special interest group, any kind of individual that is trying to take advantage of opportune that's are not available for the steps of the state of alabama. >> even if some of these kids --

>> and what this does -- >> even if some of these kids -- >> what this requires everybody to be treated the same way. >> even if some of these kids, as some have already argued, some of these kids came into this country, didn't have a choice. to you, doesn't matter? >> well, when you say they didn't have a choice, are you saying that they came here as bay bowlers small children that end came with their parents? >> yes. >> that what you're saying actually? >> yes. >> well, obviously, somebody had have transportation provide they had wouldn't be coming on their own volition. what we are talking about, as you identified for me, younger people going to institutions of higher learn dog have a choice. what we are trying to do is make sure each and every one is treated the same way. we don't want to provide any special accommodation for people that are not due special accommodation we are not talking about citizens that have handicaps or other special needs need to be met. we are talking about a special residency requirement which we don't feel that we need to off

fer we don't offer it to the people that are already residents and tax paying stoechbts state of alabama. >> we also read that the aclu today coming out pretty strongly against this law saying "the bill invites discrimination into every aspect of the lives of people in alabama." they plan to challenge t how confident are you that this law will remain upheld? >> well, mickey hammond who is the majority leader in the house of representatives and senator scott beson, the chairman of the rules committee have worked very tirelessly and diligently on this legislation to make sure that it was prepared in such a way that it would accommodate all the needs of all the people we are trying to reach, not a discriminatory fashion that is not the intent of the legislation. the intent of the legislation to provide equal opportunity for all people who want to come to alabama legally and meet the needs that each and every one of those individuals have and that's not asking too much. >> representative john merrill, i appreciate it. i'm going to take some of your points i and point them now to

mary bow earthquake the director of the immigrant justice department with the southern poverty law center. mary, let's just begin with something representative merrill said that, look this is an opportunity for -- equal opportunity for folks who come to this country legally, great in terms of employment for folks who feel they have lost jobs to some of these men and women who have been here illegally what do you sty that? >> representative merrill has read this bill this is not a bill about treating all people the same this is a bill that carves out very clear rules that says that people who lack certain documents are going to get treated a certain way. and frankly, even this -- this affects lots and lots of u.s. citizens. it says that people will be presumed to be guilty if they are picked up without a license, that they may be arrested with merely reasonable suspicion if they don't have documents on them. it makes it a crime for u.s. citizens to give people a ride if they are -- if they turn out

to be undocumented. it doesn't even have an exception torture muchfor churcg food or rides. it is a very radical bill and it is designed to crack down on one particular category of people in the state of alabama. and you know, argue it is mean-spirited, racist, unconstitutional and it is going to be costlism contains -- >> i just have to jump in. what do you say to the folks who said i read from this mayor of alabama talking about jobs, right? so he says, "when you have 9% unemployment, i think some people who might not have wanted those jobs" speaking to my grant workers, let's say lot of farming in alabama, "previously might get to be reconsidered." i have been reading a lot of tweets from people in alabama say, look this is great because we finally get jobs. these people were here illegally and this is simply the law golden gate enforced. >> this is not the law being enforced. this is so far beyond this.

this makes contract wound documented immigrants void. if a worker comes along undocumented and is promised a wage they can't sue and collect that money. i would say that creates an incredible incentive for employers who hire the workers because they are not going to be able to sue. it says that schools have to verify the immigration status not just of students who are undocumented but of parents of students who are foreign-born. this applies u.s. citizen kids born in other countries. i do want to jump in and ask about the children that is something so, so unique about this law it does target children. i'm just curious what you -- what you think what kind of strange would this put on some of these schools? they are already burdened with budget cuts in alabama specifically and now having to check the citizenship, report how much money is being fired these kids who are here

illegally. what about that? >> well, there's no doubt that the purpose of it is -- it is designed to kill students and their parents from enrolling in schools, we would say that is a bad public policy. but beyond that is unartful. and this law is so -- stay is illegal it is inartfully draft it had applies to whole categories of people they didn't intend to have it apply to the provision that prohibits undocumented immigrants from attending college in alabama, for example, applies to whole categories of legal immigrants. so people who have asylum, people who are here as refugees from other countries are not eligible to attend alabama's colleges under any circumstances, not talking about paying in-state versus out-of-state tuition, they are just not eligible to attend. >> the law is the law because we saw governor beltly sign it today. i know some folks are talking about fighting it. this is historic, as it is the

toughest illegal law in the country. we will be following it. mary bauer, i appreciate you coming on. breaking story from the world of politics. newt gingrich several aides have quit. go straight to joe johns in washington. joe what else do you know about this? >> hey, brooke, well, this is a work in progress right now there have been rumblings since last weekend with, at least that something was up with the gingrich campaign what we know right now, according to a source, newt gingrich's campaign manager has resigned, the press secretary has resigned, top strategists in iowa and south carolina, so we are talking about a number of staffers resigning from the gingrich campaign. the former speaker has put out a statement. he said, "i'm committed to running the substantive solutions-oriented campaign i set out to run earlier this spring." the campaign begins anew on sunday los angeles and he is scheduled to speak before the republican jewish coalition in

beverly hills. an aide told cnn that newt gingrich also will, will participate in monday's debate in new hampshire as originally scheduled. that, of course, appearing on cnn. so, what has prompted all of this? one of the senior aides who resigned, dave carney, told cnn, "the professional team came to the realization that the direction of the campaign they sought and newt's vision for the campaign were incompatible." what does that mean? can't tell you right now. it would be nice to get more of a readout of what's already in the record though is the former speaker had a very rocky rollout of his campaign. some of his decisions have been a little hard to explain. he went on that long-planned vacation cruise with his wife, calista, in the greek isles. he rubbed a bunch of people the wrong way with his comes over entitlement reform. and brooke, one last thing, the other angle we are working on is that some of the people connected to the

campaign who may have left might also have some allegiances to texas governor rick perry and there's been some talk that rick perry is considering getting into the presidential race. so, that is another level of intrigue entirely to explore. >> that would certainly be some news if they decide to go that way. joe johns, thanks so much. and now this -- >> for those of you who may have queasiness or uneasiness about viewing these type of photographs, i ask you to leave. >> emotions run very high in the casey anthony murder trial after the judge issued that warning. what happened next? what made casey anthony burst into tears? that's coming up. but first, cyberattacks, they are on the rise. and if the government is getting hacked along with major companies and banks and kate middleton, how safe are you online? up next, i will talk to a

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compromised. the citigroup hack is the most recent in what has been a series of high-profile cyberattacks. the fbi, interpol, even the u.s. defense department contractors have seen hackers target their secure systems and it doesn't end there british media report that is cell phones of tony blair and even kate middleton were targeted by hear. psycher crime is becoming increasingly sophisticated. almost every major city has a white collar unit there are even hackers who have switched sides and that includes my next guest here, kevin mitnik, now a security consultant, a former hacker. i know you have an insight into some of these crimes, i read about you. you are self-taught. before we talk about what you can tell us about how we can protect ourselves, i'm just curious, i know you were convicted, now out, now on the good side, but why did you do it? >> i did it for three primary reasons are when office hacker and don't forget this is from the '70s to the early '90s.

>> yeah. >> pursuit of knowledge. adventure. and curiosity. those were the three factors that drove me. >> when you read about -- they are calling it cyberattacks, cyberespionage, it is increasingly sophisticated, difficult to decipher, do you agree with a that? >> yeah, i do some of the recent attacks on lockheed and a company called rsa, these were extremely sophisticated attacks, where the attacker of nation states, looks like rsa provides authentication products was compromised and then that information was leveraged to try to compromise lockheed it seems it was a sophisticated attack. >> do you think hackers here are setting some kind of trend, trying to target these high-profile companies and what do they get out of it? >> i think there's different motivating factors here. i think you have one group that

might be, you know, plan some sort of industrial espionage or get some sort of secrets from defense contractors and then you have another group that's doing it for basically fun and to point -- to poke fun at these companies and to show off their skills and another reason, another factor that is kind of trending right now is hacktivism. >> hacktivism? are you serious there is a word for this sniff never heard that before. hacktivism. how do we protect ourselves now that you've, you know, you're -- you understand how to do it and now we are on this side of it. how can we protect ourselves, just as individuals, from being hacked? >> well, unfortunately, companies that have been hacked in media, you know, they have your information so you can't control it at this point, but there are things that the consumer can do the no brainer stuff is of course, having a personal firewall and keeping your anti-virus up to date. think about coffee shops, using wireless. >> all the time.

>> starbucks or whatever, using vpn that way a hacker cannot intercept your communications. using a stronger, more secure browser, like google chrome, i like that one with. and attackers are really looking at attacking the desktop software, you know, on your computer, whether that's flash, whether that's adobe acrobat, whether that's java there is a free product called personal software inspector that you can download. what it will do is tell you if these programs are out of date, because what happens is, you know, attackers find vulnerabilities in these program and then what happens is the manufacturers fix them, wall street to make sure you're running at the latest release. >> okay so this is my last question this sort of sparked a bit of a discussion in our morning meeting. when it comes to, say, let's say online banking, highly, highly private of information where should you do it? should do you at home are you safe? let's say you don't have a firewall. some people do it at work, what

is the safer place? >> you know, i would rather do it at either my workplace or home. if you are using a coffee shop, again, using vpn, but try to find a financial institution that used two-form factor all the them the cation, where it gives you a token and password changes every 60 seconds, increases your security. one great service, you know is e-mail service is google mail, you know, g mail, they actually allow consumers to activate two-step authentication, could you use your blackberry, your android and your iphone and install a program on there that, you know, displaced a six-digit number that changes every 60 seconds and then have you to log in with your password and that secret number and those together allow you to access your e-mail and that's much more secure than the services like yahoo! or hot mail that don't have this free service. >> so interesting. so even though sometimes we get frustrated by all these logs in and these passwords it is ral

good thing for all of us. >> one of the serious problems that i see a lot of users use the same password every where. they pick a password, they use it for everything. >> guilty. >> so, might be a good idea to download like, you know, a free password manager, like key pass, so you have one pastor password and then in this encrypted database on your computer, it stores all your other passwords that way, it's more secure in the sense that you're using different passwords for different websites, especially a bank. >> kevin mittnick, great information, come back on the >> thanks so much, brooke have a great day. >> appreciate it. lots of passwords, dually noted. people in syria running for their lives, thousands crossing the border to escape the government crackdown but there is new shocking video showing what security forces are allegedly doing to children and this is sparking a fire storm. tough stick around. tough see this video know in order to fully grasp the outreach. hala gorani is standing by and

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there is a new face for the syrian uprising, rallying around this 13-year-old boy believed to be tortured to death. hall lap gorani joins me now from washington, d.c. we know that the video of this young boy's body has already made its way, of course to youtube. our viewers should be warped it is disturbing to look at.

but tell me the story and what are the claims? >> well, you will remember hamza kat oil. v, that young man, 13 years old, became an eye cop, a symbol of the uprisings in syria. over the last 24 hours or so, a new video has surfaced of a 15-year-old boy and you are seeing imams that surfaced on youtube and online of a body that looks mutilated, with several bullet holes, even hear a woman say i recognize my son from a scar on his head. we understand from a report that his neck was broken, bullet wounds, leg broken. activists say the body showed signs of torture. what is interesting, brooke this young man came from the same fill vil lamb as hamzi, 193-year-old it is unclear if the two boys were friends but they did disappear, according to activists, the same day, april 29th, date these demonstrations took place in dara.

and dara is very interesting. that is the city in which the uprising started after the arrest of 15 young people this strikes a chord in syria, brooke, as it does in many other countries when children are targeted. >> yeah i imagine that this video, it was just so difficult to look at of this 13-year-old mutilated. i mean, the reaction, i imagine, is pouring in in outrage. >> it's difficult to ascertain because we are not allowed to report from inside syria. we really can gauge the mood only through i don't line reaction and through what activists are telling us. hamza's face has been carried on posters and banners in syria. we haven't seep it with this young map but if this video continues to circulate, then he yes it will become potentially just the latest outrage

surrounding the alleged torture and killing of a child, a 15-year-old is a child. and according to one human rights organization, 77 children have been killed since the beginnings of these uprisings in syria and that is almost 10% of the total, of the lowest total that has been estimated in syria. >> i know you would love to be in syria, get the reaction first happened, you were in jordan, tried to get in there they still won't let us in, frustrating. hala gorani in washington. thank you. more democrats are calling on congressman anthony weener to resign. he is now responding. you will hear his two reasons for why he will not quit.

dana bash is on capitol hill and you were reporting on anthony weiner, his colleagues forcing him to step aside. what are you hearing today and is it working? >> there is no evidence he is going any where in fact, he is saying he is staying put. i'm told from a source that had he a private conversation with one of his colleagues from new york yes said one of the reasons is because his wife wants him to stay in congress. he also said in this private phone conversation that he has seep and cited polling data showing a imagine jurority of new yorkers want him to stay and the were he is not going and the

sources describe anthony weiner as very dug in on the idea of resigning from congress this had phone call i'm describing came as a series of calls we have been reporting on he has been making the past several dies reporters and colleagues and to friends really saying that he is sorry, being very contrite according to many of the sources i'm talk to. one of those calls happened with democratic congressman nita lowey who is somebody not only a colleague but also a friend. she is one of the few members of congress who actually went to his wedding. brooke, i'm told in this conversation that low which told him she is very disappointed in him and his behavior was inexcusable. >> whatting today, dana are you hearing from some of congressman weiner's zplegs anything new? >> we saw a lot -- not a lot but a lot more than before of his members of -- his dplegts house saying that he should resign about six in the house, eight all together yesterday. no more that we have heard of before today but jim clyburn, the number two democrat in the house, he told reporters that

went house comes back, they are now back in their districts that democratic caucus in the house will have something to say about it. he didn't elaborate on that, brooke. not clear what he meant by that but again no public calls for him to resign so far today but one quote that i just want to give to you this is from the number two democrat in the senate, dick dur bip. our ted barrett reports he alluded to an old quote by woodrow wilson and he said "don't murder somebody who is already committing suicide." >> woodrow wilson. interesting. dana bash, like you said though congress says he is still dug n thank you. >> thanks, brooke. man expected to replace secretary of defense robert gates is testifying before lawmakers on america's wars and leon panetta is getting quite candid today. you will hear what he says about how fast troops will begin leaving afghanistan next month. also, the next time you try on clothes, you may see a camera in the dressing room. i'm serious. a camera. but wait until you hear why. alison kosik, i don't know where you find this stuff, i know we

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leon pan knelt ta talks afghanistan and cameras making an appearance in your dressing room. time to play reporter roulette. barbara starr, i want to talk to you at the pentagon. the head of the cia, currently

leon panetta, testifying today, telling congress how woe handle afghanistan if, in fact, he is confirmed as the next secretary of defense. what is he saying today (well, right now, he is walking a pretty fine line. at this hearing this morning, he talk about the need for not rushing, not rushing for the exit doors in afghanistan, sort of hinting that he would go with the general notion around the pentagon of a modest troop reduction, though he didn't use those words but then he talked about supporting the president's idea of significant troop reductions. he even used general petraeus's favorite words, that progress in afghanistan is fragile but reversible. so a pretty typical cop fir nation hearing, walking the line, not trying to offend democrats or republicans, getting himself confirmed. they don't come to the pentagon. i guess women find out what he really thinks. we know he was talking about afghanistan, as you mentioned. also reading, talking about cyberattacks,et, did he outline what his priority once if and when confirmed? >> well, it is the number of

international event ares, of course, wrapping upper rack, afghanistan, the unrest in the middle east, syria, yemen, libya, iran, north korea on the other side of the world, the whole list, but he is also facing an economy crisis here at the pentagon. he is under orders from the white house to look for possibly another $400 billion in budget cult cuts here, less capability for the u.s. military, less ability to do things much the pan knelt ta era here may be about crossing things off the pentagon's to do list rather than adding them on. >> barbara starr at the pentagon. thank you. >> sure. >> next on reporter roulette, alison kosik in new york with a pretty unique story that has a little something to do with jeans -- >> how they fit. >> and one's gluteus maximus. explain. >> yes, i will. so i'm actually talking about an asscam. that's what it's called a

trademark name, by the clothing retailer american rags. here is how this thing works. i don't know this comes from the category of what will they think of next? look at this picture this pitch letter tell a thousand words here. what happens is this closed-circuit camera is positioned behind you at butt level and the mirror is in front of you, see the guy looking in the mirror which, by the way, funny how they get a guy to show what this is like, not putting a woman out there so the mirror in front is like a tv screen, so he is seeing the image of his rear end up there, and the camera down there is streamed to that mirror, so you don't have to contort your body around to see how fine the backside looks, you can just look right there and that little almost tv screen. what do you think? is it a plus? is it a good thing? >> i mean, i guess, your not doing the whole krapg your neck but really something we are going to see all over or one store trying to make a buck with a little pr? >> you know what there are two stores in california that have this. there's one in chicago that has this as well. and american rag, the one in california, says it's really

getting positive feed become on this you know, i wouldn't want to step into a fitting room with a camera. how many times cameras, something goes wrong, right? feed goes out to the whole store. >> on youtube and then your mother sees it and then it's not good. but nevertheless -- >> oh, yeah. >> you went there and alison kosik -- >> i'm not step nothing one of those. >> thank you. reporter roulette for this thursday. told you would be wild. now to one of those dramatic delays in orlando, the casey anthony murder trial. first, her had brother has returned to the stand. watch this. >> what did your sister tell you the reason for caylee being taken was? >> this is the first time that the jury is hearing casey anthony's claims that a woman kidnapped her daughter. also, the judge warns the juror it is you are someone who knows emotion, tough leave now prosecute rears veal a disturbing piece of evidence. this is a moment that caused casey a on thisny to look away and break down into tears. you're going to see t i don't know what that was, but that wasn't casey anthony.

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here is a scenario, a man breaks into your home, starts walking out with your things. what do you do? do you scream and run? i think i would pick up the phone and call 911 maybe presence of mind to grab a cell phone and shoot a video. well, given all of that i want you to catch this.

>> can you please leave. how did you get in here? >> okay. so the voice, that's 28-year-old woman. she used her cell phone to shoot this video tuesday morning inside her home this is oakland, california. police released it to the public because the guy allegedly came back and sexually assaulted the woman. they are hoping someone with, take a good look, someone will recognize him. we are going to freeze the video, here he is. this is thement is. if you know this guy, to oakland police would love to hear from you. now, let me back up, say the woman who shot the video, she is okay, we are showing it on television, by the way, but police say she doesn't want any other woman to go through what happened to her. testimony in the casey anthony murder trial is cut short for the day. we showed you the moment just a little while ago because she has become ill. the judge suddenly called a recess a little more than an hour ago and the jury and casey anthony spent much of the day being shown heart-wrenching

pictures of 2-year-old caylee anthony's skull and mud-caked winnie the pooh blanket. sunny hostin is on the case. and sunny what is it exactly that the jury saw? >> they saw very graphic photographs of the crime scene, brooke, with little caylee anthony's skull in those pictures. they also saw pictures that the medical examiner referred to that were much more cleaned up, but in my view, perhaps more graphic, pictures of little caylee anthony's skull, pictures of her mandible, pictures of hair sort of matted to the skull, teeth were a part of that picture, you could also see teeth as well as the eye socket. and so extremely graphic photographs e neared evidence, seep by the jury, on little monitors, i guess one monitor shared by two jurors throughout the jury box and so i would say

this is probably perhaps the most sobering moment for this jury because now, little caylee anthony is a victim. now they know that the little -- the pictures of little caylee anthony they have been seeing before, of a -- very much alive beautiful little girl is no more. >> so as the jury is sitting there looking at these tiny mop doors, looking at these grewsome images what is casey anthony doing? how is she react? >> we saw a really emotional casey anthony, brooke, in the classroom today. from my vantage point, i thought she was sobbing because i saw sort of this dry heaving or heaving with her hands covering her mouth, her face was very read a few folks in the courtroom say they saw no actual tears rolling down her face. so i think some people are speculating that it is theater but from my vantage point, she was extremely emotional and judge perry said she is ill.

>> we saw her leave, it was recessed but then also today, we saw casey anthony's brother, lee, testified that casey told him that zanny the nanny actually snatched little caylee from her. let's watch this. >> during this meeting, zanny held casey down and told her that she was taking caylee from her. and she did that with the help of her sister. >> pretty short, concise testimony l it have a big impact on the jury? >> more of the same at this point. the jury knows she is a liar, admitted liar, the defense has concede it had there is no zani the nanny, zahn hnida fernandez gonzalez was never casey anthony's nanny. i don't know that advanced the ball further for this

prosecution, but today was probably the most important day for the prosecution in putting little caylee anthony as a victim into that courtroom. >> okay, case number two last hour, i spoke with a man, his name is greg fultz, he put this billboard up in this small new mexico up to, claiming his ex-girlfriend had an abortion. here is the picture, cradling what would be an infant. the case raises all kinds of legal questions. i want to start with the constitutionality here, this is essentially she is saying it is an invasion of her pry vass circumstance he is arguing, look it is free speech. he says -- first of all, let me start there. what flies? >> it really is incredible, isn't it? but bottom line, even the first amendment really usually trumps everything, including an invasion of privacy and in this case, people are really uncomfortable with it but distasteful discourse, distasteful speech is also protected but you know, the commissioner here disagrees that

premise because the commissioner has ordered him to take that billboard down and we will fee a judge agrees with the commissioner. right now it appears he has to take that billboard down. she is suing him for harassment and invasion of privacy and perhaps the commissioner thinks that billboard is harassing her. >> yeah, he told me, look, it's gonna go down but going to have to be forced down, i'm not doing it and i'm going to go to jail instead. sunny hop, thank you very much. >> yeah. what is the best part of coming home? watch this. >> surprise. >> a little girl gets a big birthday present all the way from afghanistan. you got see how this heart warming moment ends. we will play it for you, next.

one little girl got the birthday present of her life wait from afghanistan. grab your tissues. you got to see this. >> surprise! >> i knew it. i knew it. i knew it. >> yay! >> i knew it, i knew it, she says. that box was a little too big for a dog. maybe that would be dad. that's daniel fragoso, a

veteran, served in iraq and afghanistan. he has been overseas since october. so cute. as a contractor developing communication strategies for the military. and he returned from afghanistan just this past tuesday, just in time to surprise little madison there, eat a little cake, let her put on her crown for her birthday. so sweet. love those coming home stories. now, coming up in a couple of minutes, "the situation room" with my colleague wolf blitzer, wolf, as always, joins me live with a preview. wolf blitzer, what do you have coming up? >> i love those stories, too, i don't have a tissue, you watch that for a little while, you appreciate the sacrifices those men and women do for all of us them go spend six months, a year and then they do it repeatedly overseas in a dangerous environment whether in iraq, whether or not weather in afghanistan. they finally come home they see their little kids, it's always, always so nice to see that reunion. we are going to have all the important news, including the breaking news on newt gingrich's

presidential campaign. you have been reporting it. we are going in depth on what's going on. is his campaign imploding right now with the mass exodus of all of his top aids? what is going on with new england? a lot on that also taking a look at leon panetta's confirmation hearings as the next secretary of defense. what's he saying about u.s. troop withdrawals potentially from afghanistan? what about who's going to pay for all of this especially if libya? got a lot of analysis on that got all the important news of the day coming up, as you all know, right at the top of the hour. brooke, back to you. >> see you in five minutes, wolf blitzer, appreciate it. hey, we learned a little something new today about politics, don't ever bring up someone's parents during a heated debate. why? because it could lead to a fist fight, just like it apparently did between a republican and democrat in illinois. joe johns has that story coming up in political pop. that's next.

this is the time of year a lot of state legislate had slach churs are fin anything anything, up their business. sometimes things get heated. case in points, state of illinois, putting to rest the investigation of a not-so-civil moment on the senate floor. joe johns, he is back, with political pop. and joe, set this whole thing up and why did it start? >> well, it was supposed to be about electricity rates, right? >> okay. >> but it's hot, you're tired, it's the end of the senate session, the state senate session and then somebody starts talking about your daddy.

you know, okay, you have big temperatures in the midwest and the east. and it's probable belie nothing will get anybody hotter under the collar this time of year than utility rates. and that's what the debate was supposed to be about raising the rates to fix up the grid out in illinois. and without going into all the fine print, one state senator mentions that another state senator's father is a lobbyist for utility company that would benefit from the bill before the senate and then it just goes down hill from there so listen to a little bit of the debate. >> the sponsor's father is a registered lobbyist, lobbying for, who else, but com ed. >> my friend across the aisle, my young friend, it's not what you know that gets you in trouble in this building, it's what you don't know that just ain't so. the reason i support this bill is because it's the right bill. we need to move illinois

forward. if you don't have the courage to do it, i will. and i don't care, you can look under my underwear, i don't care where you look. >> whoa. >> but the fact is i support this. >> goodness, joe. >> yeah i know. underwear? >> really? >> i'm not gonna go there, right? so, the fists start flying, a punch gets thrown, maybe more than one, now we got a police investigation in the legislature, where president obama used to work. prosecutors not going to prosecute but the state senate still has to decide what to do about that punch. >> so is there an official investigation yet? >> yes. >> yes. >> and i think that determined that a punch was thrown but the prosecutor said i'm not going there because this occurred during the time of senate business and that is up to the state senate in illinois. so springfield, start her up. >> like you said, bring in somebody's daddy into the conversation, things can get na